The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Rating:
Apr 23, 2000Prehistoric Comedy/Cartoon in Live-Action
Sequel to the live-action The Flintstones film. Whether we asked for it or not, this offers up a Flintstones origin story where we see familiar elements of the series fall into place

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Rating: ★★
Apr 15, 2001Girl Rock Group's Adventures/Cartoon in Live Action
A live-action film based on the animated tv series about a girl rock band who originally appeared in Archie comics, this gets buried under its own efforts to be cutely ironic

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 25, 2002Juvenile Spy Adventures
The second of Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids films is slightly the lesser of its predecessor – it makes the mistake of stripping out the gadgets – but is still fun and has the wacky surrealism Rodriguez gave the first film

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Rating: ★★
Jan 13, 2004Adventures Inside a Videogame
The third in the series is no longer even a Spy Kids film but a Virtual Reality videogame film. Robert Rodriguez has some fun creating the virtual worlds but the parody that the other films engaged in is missing

Garfield (2004)

Garfield (2004)
Rating: ★★
Oct 4, 2004Lazy Talking Cat/Comic-Strip Adaptation
Big screen version of the massively popular Garfield comic-strips in live-action with a CGI talking Garfield. Here Garfield has been tacked onto a plot that feels assembled from every other talking animals film

Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)

Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 1, 2012Nazis Invade England/Satiric Alternate History/Puppet Film
A puppet film about a satiric Nazi invasion of England in World War II. Imagine It Happened Here by way of Team America. This has its amusements but is uneven

Riverworld (2010)

Riverworld (2010)
Rating:
Jul 3, 2010All of Humanity Resurrected on an Alien Planet
The second tv mini-series of Philip Jose Farmer's classic SF novels trashes the books just as badly as the first attempt. The premise and characters are indifferently rewritten, while the show is churned out by a director with a tatty indifference to what he is making